I want to disable Excel 365 performance improvement auto-nags

Anonymous
2024-04-12T08:17:24+00:00

Let's skip back to How to stop Excel from automatically checking Workbook performance? - Microsoft Community

This is about repetitive screen clutter, it doesn't need to be there so let's switch it off. I'll point out that contract worker such as myself have no scope to change the settings of the working models of companies we work at. So on a daily basis we have to clean away screen trash which is electronically generated by a Microsoft product. Screen space is always at a premium.

Now the answers on the above link completely skip around the issue - if anything they misunderstand what the questioner is driving at. As another person irritated by intrusive - let's call it feature creep (harsher words could be used) - I'm bemused that increasing product complexity isn't accompanied by ways to clean things up by eg turning off nags.

The issue hasn't gone away. It isn't solved. And yes - just to be clear - I'm perfectly able to redesign spreadsheets to make them more efficient and limit bloat - and I do this if it's in my remit.

I'm also aware that answers can be phrased to close down issues that aren't going to be fixed.

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-09-03T23:36:43+00:00

    This problem is on par with the suggestion, "Every'nt many book," and is about as old.

    I have a project that contains more than 100 workbooks. Each and every one - each and every time - pops this stupid bar.

    Maybe it doesn't like my conditional formatting, or maybe the conditional formatting can't automatically fix from legacy entry (legacy meaning from before when it would break the format ranges when adding a row or column).

    However, it doesn't matter. You do NOT add features that can not be turned off. Ever. Especially features that you only _hope_ will be useful.

    This ain't it, chief.

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-09-05T14:03:07+00:00

    Very well said. It is a LACK of CARING about a product and the USERS.

    You would think that a UI research group would work with users about this type of change prior to final implementation. And since when is there an option put it that you CAN'T turn off?

    All Microsoft has to do is BACKOUT this change. Yet they REFUSE to HELP the community. Why?

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-05-13T09:08:01+00:00

    Well done Microsoft ! Another irritating feature which is just an interruption to real work. Trying to make everyone conform to some made up standard. If a workbook is slow it's up to the user to request help and not force it onto everyone every time. I miss Lotus.

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-05-22T14:46:45+00:00

    Why WOULDN'T options to turn on or off ALWAYS be available? A few more lines of code and a storage location. If Microsoft can't do that, then they arw in trouble. Settings like this SHOULD ALWAYS be able to be changed by the user, esp. anything that impacts the UI.

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-05-08T18:42:49+00:00

    I am having the same issue. It is so annoying!!! I do not want to change my workbook!! Microsoft please get rid of this annoying prompt!!!!!!

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